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Getting Fit to Follow: Moving Beyond Bias to Embrace God’s Unity Our brains are remarkable organs, designed to help us navigate a complex world by creating shortcuts and recognizing patterns. But what happens when these same helpful mechanisms that organize our daily experiences begin to shape how we see people? What happens when the efficiency that helps us solve problems becomes the very thing that prevents us from truly loving others? The Hidden Architecture of Bias Before prejudice ever takes…
When Bias Blocks the Path to Love What if the greatest threat to our faith isn’t a lack of knowledge, but a failure to love? What if we’ve spent so much energy defending truth that we’ve made love optional? These are uncomfortable questions, but they’re essential ones for anyone who claims to follow Jesus. The Problem With Staying Put In the early days of the church, something remarkable happened—or rather, didn’t happen. Jesus had clearly told his followers to go…
Community that doesn’t make sense When you look at the early Church from the outside, one thing stands out immediately—it was a community that didn’t make sense. These people were clearly together, but socially, they didn’t “match.” It wasn’t a club of the wealthy or the poor. It wasn’t just men or just women. It wasn’t only Jews or only Gentiles. They came from every part of the social spectrum, and yet they were glued together. That’s not accidental. From…